TABLES OF GENERA OF CULICINI 195 . 



14. Eighth abdominal segment entirely retractile, membranous and naked in 



the female; male genitalia with the harpagones with multiple term- 

 inal appendages Psorophora Robineau-Desvoidy (iv, p. 525) 



Eighth abdominal segment only partly membranous and retractile in the 

 female; J' genitalia, with the harpagones with only one terminal 

 appendage Aiides Meigen (iv, p. 607) 



15. Postnotum nude 16 



Postnotum with one or two setae posteriorly. . . . Dinomimetes Knab (iii, p. 196) 



16. Second joint of antennae 6 to 8 X 1 Dinanamesus Dyar & Knab (iii, p. 213) 



Second joint of antennae 12 to 14 X 1 Deinocerites Theobald (iii, p. 199) 



TABLE or GENEBA BY THE MALE GENITALIA. 



1. Harpes present 2 



Harpes absent 11 



2. Harpagones present 3 



Harpagones absent 8 



3. Side-pieces with appendages or prominences, but not lobed 4 



Side-pieces without appendages, though often with lobes 5 



4. Harpagone developed into a long spatulate appendage 



{Deinocerites Theobald (iii, p. 199) 

 Dinomimetes Knab (iii, p. 196) 

 Dinanamesus Dyar & Knab (iii, p. 213) 

 {Culex Linnaeus (iii, p. 215) 

 Carrollia Lutz (iii, p. 461) 

 Lutzia Theobald (iii, p. 466) 



5. Harpagone slender, rod-like, with apical appendages, rarely reduced to a 



conical lobe with seta-like appendage 6 



Harpagone a rod or teeth jointed upon a basal cone or elongate appendage 



Mansonia Blanchard (iii, p. 501) 



6. Apical appendages of harpagones multiple 



Psorophora Robineau-Desvoidy (iv, p. 525) 

 Apical appendage of harpagones single 7 



7. A fringe of broad scales on inner edge of side-pieces 



Hwmagogus Williston (iv, p. 863) 

 No such fringe present Aedes Meigen (iv, p. 607) 



8. Harpes moderate; clasp-filament moderate in length 9 



Harpes very large and prominent; clasp-fi:lament long 



Megarhinus Robineau-Desvoidy (iv, p. 927) 



9. Side-piece with large conical basal lobe 



fOrthopodomyia Theobald (iv, p. 877) 



Culiseta Felt (iii, p. 474) 

 Culex subgenus Culicella Felt (iii, p. 457) 

 ^Culex subgenus Climacura Howard, Dyar & Knab (iii, p. 452) 

 Side-piece without such a lobe 10 



10. Side-piece with small setose basal lobe; clasp-filament distorted or divided 



f Aedes sylvestris Theobald (iv, p. 694) 

 \ Aedes fuscus Osten Sacken (iv, p. 729) 

 Side-piece without basal lobe; clasp-filament simple 



Aedes caloptis Meigen (iv, p. 824) 



11. Basal appendages numerous, though not developed into harpes or harpagones 



Vranotwnia Lynch Arribalzaga (iv, p. 898) 

 No true basal appendages besides the unci 12 



12. Side-piece with basal setose lobe; unci large, capitate 



Acdeomyia Theobald (iv, p. 893) 

 Side-piece without basal setose lobe; unci small, slender 



C Anopheles Meigen (iv, p. 962) 

 \Coelodiazesis Dyar & Knab (iv, p. 1035) 



TABLE OF GENEBA BY THE LARVAE. 



1. Air-tube short, sessile, the larvae surface-feeders 2 



Air-tube distinctly elongate 3 



2. Abdomen with plumose lateral hairs on the first three segments only; head 



with plumose hairs Anopheles Meigen (iv, p. 962) 



Abdomen with plumose lateral hairs to the sixth segment; head with small 



simple hairs only Gcelodiazesis Dyar & Knab (iv, p. 1035) 



3. Air-tube without pecten 4 



Air-tube with a well-developed pecten 7 



